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BUILD A BOOK
Wikipedia now lets you assemble a collection of articles into a book that can be either read off-line or published as a bound volume. It’s like instant textbook. Go to tinyurl.com/2wikibook to start...
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Lynda.com Training Video on Photoshop Elements (from YouTube) YouTube is a great source for free online training, but sometimes it’s not enough. A reader asked us to find a book to help him upload...
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FREE COURSES EARN COLLEGE CREDITS
Education-Portal.com has 104 free courses that can earn college credits. We saw courses in biology, math, history, psychology and literature. They claim the site has been approved by Harvard. (That’s...
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POLITICS FOR KIDS
PBSkids.org/democracy lets kids play politics, creating presidential candidate stickers and posters online. Information about issues is missing, but we learn that Mitt Romney’s favorite food is hot...
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LOOK UP
EarthSky.org shows you where to look for planets and star formations visible with the naked eye. Jupiter and Venus are visible in the eastern sky this month. Jupiter will be visible right through...
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YOUR OWN CSI
Why watch the TV show when you can solve your local neighborhood crimes with your own forensic analysis? “The Illustrated Guide to Home Forensic Science Experiments,” by Thompson and Thompson, $30 from...
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GOOD BOOKS
“Encyclopedia of Electronic Components, Vol. 1,” by Charles Platt; $25, oreilly.com. This book is an education. We thought it would be just a long list of parts and what they’re called, but it is an...
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MAKE A SMART MONKEY
Issue 32 of “Make:” just came out; $15 from MakeZine.com, and it captured us from the first glance inside the cover. There it was, a description of how to take one of those toy monkeys that bang...
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$99 LAPTOPS FOR TEACHERS
We remember when Apple gave free computers to teachers. Now Google is offering laptops, called “Chromebooks.” The laptops aren’t free, but at $99 they’re a steal. Unfortunately, every single laptop...
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MAPS OF WAR
MapsOfWar.com shows you 5,000 years of history in 90 seconds in an animated map that changes as you move along a timeline. We looked at “Who Conquered theMiddle East?” (tip: Alexander the Great passed...
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INTERNET PUBLIC LIBRARY
ipl.org : The call letters stand for “Internet Public Library,” a reference service provided by Drexel University dozens of other universities. There are more than 13,000 texts online, plus links to...
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ANTI-GRAVITY MIRROR AND OTHER SCIENCE PROJECTS
Anti-Gravity Mirror exploratorium.edu/snacks/ Lots of science project ideas, these from the science museum in San Francisco. (Yes: Snacks.) Check out the neat science kits in the museum gift shop.
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PARENTS AND KIDS APP
“PBS Parents Play and Learn” is a free app with activities for parents and their wee ones. The activities are for familiar locations, like restaurants. We tapped the bath section and learned about fun...
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EASING THE SUMMER DOLDRUMS
Education.com has a lot of crafts and that could ease the summer doldrums activities for children. We liked the paper horse project.
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MAGIC PAINT WITH MATH
“Magic Paint with Math Lite,” for kids 4 to 6, is a free mathematical coloring book for Android and iPhones. In “training mode,” a child learns basic arithmetic.
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FINDING GOOD APPS
Our favorite neighbor, who visits us a lot, is five years old and likes bugs. So naturally, we went looking for bug apps. Which leads us to today’s topic: How do you find a good app for your iPad or...
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LEARNING A LANGUAGE
DuoLingo (for iPhone/iPad/Android) offers free language lessons in German, French, Spanish, English, Italian and Portuguese. “Como se dice?”
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BACK TO SCHOOL
Boundless.com is being sued by textbook publishers for offering cut-rate and cut-down versions online. They cover 21 subjects and all the books are $20, which is quite a bargain compared to $100-200...
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NOW AND THEN
The web site Visual.ly/100-Years-Change compares 1913 to 2013 in fashion, sports, tech, population, and every day life. Average annual income was $800 then; now it’s $26,000. Population was 97 million,...
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TOOT-TOOT TUTORS
A new start-up has drawn $4 million from investors to fuel an online tutoring service called InstaEdu.com. So far they claim to have 3000 tutors on hand. It costs $24 an hour to get tutored, and the...
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